We've been trying out the newest addition to the Switch's line up of accessories, the appropriately named Joy-Con Wheel Pair made by Nintendo themselves. As comfortable as they are and for all the advantages of having something chunkier to wrap the tiny controllers in for those with bigger hands, there's a big problem with them.

As soon as we slapped a Joy-Con in we noticed that in the triggers there was a large amount of travel required before you actually hit the button, and in my personal view, it was an unacceptable amount. It made gameplay uncomfortable and awkward, but thankfully we found a super-simple solution to the woes this brought, and it's something anyone can do at home.

Make sure you check out the video above where we show you the problem in detail and the method to fixing it. Unless you don't find this kind of thing a problem in which case you should probably look at another one of our articles instead.

I'm not gonna use the Steering Wheel, but other people might find this video really usefull. It's just a shame that the players have to fix something when Nintendo clearly could have done a better job.

@the8thark Yeah it seems that way here and over at Push Square. I've pointed out a few errors to Sammy and he straight up ignores it, and doesn't fix the issues either. I guess I just have a higher standard for myself and my work, and i'm not above fixing an error if someone points it out.

@RedMageLanakyn "games journalism" has always been the lowest form of writing. At least they're not SJWblogtaku but they're barely 1 step above. If all publishers could just email me new announcements directly it'd be great. Sadly they don't and we have to suffer stuff like this.

@Menchi187 I agree that kotaku is the lowest of the low, but this site and push square do a pretty good job covering things without getting too far off track. I just don't understand why people can't proofread their work.

@RedMageLanakyn Rushing to post "news" is more important than getting the words or facts right. The results effectively diminish the value of journalism as a service and instead suggest a lack of respect for the reader beyond monetizing clicks. The internet is every bit as useful for confusing and shrouding as it is for informing and sharing, and it's sad that the economic realities encourage the former endeavors (even by well-meaning writers/sites).

It all portends to an embarrassing future, but I'll always remain hopeful that someday we will get it right no matter how unlikely.

@ogo79 That's neat and all, but in practice I haven't actually seen any flesh person actually alter a component of their Switch. Everyone I know has gotten by just fine without any dock, joycon, etc. engineering. In the future I might send in a joycon for repair, but that is the only issue I've seen in over about a dozen real-life Switches. Small sample size, but so is just about every account you read online about anything...

So cute comment, but likely born more out of the internet hivemind than actual reality.

@Pac-Fan yeah, I phrased that badly. I meant to say that it feels like consoles are becoming more and more choice driven, there are often different versions of a particular console and you can choose different controllers. I think it's a short step from mid generation console upgrades to being able to specify the 'tier' of components that go into your console's case (if not necessarily actually build it yourself), maybe even taking it in to get upgraded components fitted to replace the ones you started out with and Consoles move even closer to becoming diet-PCs. Except for Nintendo. They'll always be the exception somehow

@Jeronan Yeah, their quality assurance seems to be worse recently. I'm hoping since the Switch itself is still in a sort of "beta" phase, all of these issues will be addressed by Fall and we won't have to worry about stuff like this anymore.

I don't know what the actualproblem is, the Wii Wheels were exactly the same! I personally live by the Wheel and slam on the drift button quite a bit. I won't be "fixing" mine, if anything this is a huge bonus. Nintendo wouldn't release a product with such "problems" if it weren't intentional.

@ACK You're absolutely right, if anything this seems more of a clickbait title than an honest article. This is definitely an opinion-based article, the kind that starts all the badmouthing about "problems". Everyone seems so eager to "fix" absolutely anything to do with the Switch these days!

I always had that problem of really deep buttons with the Gamecube's L and R button, but nobody seemed to agree with me. Now suddenly everyone thinks long travel time for buttons is a problem on this. Meh.

@ACK One of my friends bought a tiny USB powered fan that he plugs into the dock and keeps it on whenever he runs BotW docked. I've felt the temperature difference with and without the fan and it's something I'll definitely do when I get a switch, especially for only $10 and no audible difference.

I never played mario kart on Wii with this . Never used the Wii U pad for steering wheel and i ll never use this for mario kart deluxe. I really can't understand how ppl manage to use this as a controler and have fun with it. I just can't

@RedMageLanakynI wouldn't worry about overheating, even in the dock. I've played for 8-10 hours straight, and taken it out of the dock and it barely felt warm to the touch.

Tests were done and Zelda peaked at 41°C in tabletop, 46°C in the dock. Fast Racing RMX, which runs in 1080p, got it up to 49°C in the dock (48° and change). PS4 Pro gets up into the mid 70's for comparison. All that talk about bending from overheating, I think, was erroneous speculation because tests show it barely gets hot at all, and both my units brand new out of the box had a slight "bend" on the back panel. I think it just bulges out a tad with everything inside it or something. So they just come like that, doesn't appear to be an issue to be concerned about

@JaxonH I'm not worried about bending or overheating at all. It just gives me piece of mind knowing there's some extra air on hot electronic components. It's probably why I have 9 case fans in my PC, and an aggressive fan curve on my 1080

@Dangerous25 I thought I was being pretty civil about it. I understand they're human, and mistakes are made. The error I pointed out in this article was fixed. I had just read two articles before this one and found errors as well. I don't hunt for them, I just see things that don't click together easily. It's a pet peeve and a curse.

@JaxonH They're all on a fan controller too. I set them to low when it's idle and about 75% during gaming sessions. It really does make a difference, by about 7c overall inside the case. I like to tinker!

@Dangerous25 Well you deleted your last comment, and I had already answered you twice, explaining myself. Yet you keep bringing up things that I'm doing when we've all pretty much moved on and the error was fixed. It's all good, let's move on.

I'm curious why this is the only mention of this I've seen online. Given that most sites jump at the opportunity to call out the slightest mistake Nintendo makes, I would think there would be hundreds of articles about how terrible the joy-con wheel is. Perhaps...it's not that big of a deal?

Ah... I usually use Wii mote + Nunchuck for Mario Kart Wii & 8. It is a lot easier than using Steering Wheel. Well... for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, I will stick on Joy Cons attached on Switch or attached on Joy Con Grip. I need a Focus during steering my racer.

Idek if you are in on the grammar policing going on in this comment section or not, but people saying "shotty," which isn't a word, is one of my, how shall we put it, "triggers." It's "shoddy." D's, not T's. Lord, how were you people brought up?

£15 for a couple of chunks of plastic isn't exactly cheap. I just bought a fully working keyboard for five quid less than that, and a wireless mouse for half the price. A pair of these wheels should cost a tenner at most imo. Seriously, it's literally just two chunks of plastic and little else. And, without the "official" label, you can indeed go on the likes of Amazon and get near identical accessories for around a tenner.

I have a feeling, eventually someone will have the necessary resources to market the concept of PNP(Plug-N'-Play) boards that are a complete game console, possibly even can be another form of booting a pc, using the monitor for output, & the motherboard for power, & data transfer; the PNP game board does the rest itself. I imagine I'm not the only one to have come up with that concept. Really, it's just an advancement to the idea of a computer-on-a-chip.

@JaxonH: Problem is, depending on quality of components, just a little heat can do major damage.

@RedMageLanakyn: Do you have any of those fans specifically cooling your graphics card, or just your machine, in general?

Why is Reggie obsessed with making the lives of all Nintendo fans an endless cycle of doom and disappointment? He spends every waking moment scheming and lying in order to lead us into his wretched bog of evil.

Something like that does not have much to do with quality, it's more about design.

Like it or not, but if the buttons are like that, then they are most likely supposed to be like that.That of course doesn't make it better.

It is something I would like to hear multiple different opinions about before I judge though. Just from seeing this, I am not sure whether that would bother me personally. Actually, I think it could even be interesting if you can have a little tension on your finger without actually pressing the button, depending on how much force you need to constantly press it down.

@Damo "When you're producing as much content as we do on a daily basis"

That would only hold true if you only had one or two people writing, but you have at least 5 or 6. I would hardly call 5 or 6 articles spaced a few hours apart "a lot" of content. At best that's a poor excuse. There's no reason someone couldn't take the extra 2 minutes to proofread a few paragraphs.

@Capt_N I have one 140mm on the side of the case blowing air on the GPU, the rest are 120mm configured for positive air flow exhausting out the top and rear. Intakes are on the side, bottom, and front.

Don't really want to splash out for an additional controller to play this multiplayer, but the Joy-Cons alone are a bit small.I hadn't considered using the wheel add-ons as we never use motion control steering, but thinking about it, they might actually be a reasonable alternative.If I do get a pair, then I will definitely be using this trick, as it sounds like a really good idea.

@JeronanYes was wondering this myself. Have actaully bought a couple of different sets from different people,. Have ordered both Nintendo's own, and also some really cool ones by Orzly that even have proper lights on the front that allows you to see who the players are. For some daft reason. Nintendo's own ones don't show you this without having to take the joycon out, which I thought was a little bit of an oversight, but it should be interesting to see how they compare in terms of actually playing them. I'll post back when I've finally had a chance to play mariokart with them, but at least I know I've covered my bases either way.